Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy development is associated with mutations in JC virus capsid protein VP1 that change the receptor specificity of the virus

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1643-1644

  Bayliss, Julianne ^a   Harrison, Eleanor ^a   Mclean, Catriona A ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VP1; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS LARGE T ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOMODULATION; INCIDENCE; JC VIRUS; LETTER; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CAPSID PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JC VIRUS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; VIRAL TROPISM;

EID: 80054755400     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir611     Document Type: Letter

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